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How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?

...researcher Andreas Harsono has warned. Many governments in the region are already using the fake news phenomenon to label most media criticism as false, opening the way for state regulation of social media. Singapore is now studying the possibility of introducing a law to “force social media companies to remove misleading reports,” says Singapore law and home affairs...
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Why are public companies vanishing in America?
Money & Business

Why are public companies vanishing in America?

...research and development (R&D) and less on capital expenditures. Average capital expenditures (as a percentage of assets) falls in half from 1975 to 2015. In contrast, R&D increases fivefold. Whereas in 1975 the average public corporation spent almost seven times more on capital expenditures than R&D, by 2015 R&D had surpassed capital expenditures. Since firms invested...
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Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?
Nature & Environment

Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?

...research leader and campaigner for clean air at the non-profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Petcoke has far more sulphur content than coal while natural gas has none. But general service tax (GST), now being rolled out in the country as part of tax reforms, seems to favour petcoke over gas. Thus, while clean natural gas attracts a 30 per cent tax, coal is...
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How much money does the UK really contribute to the European Union?
Science, Maths & Technology

How much money does the UK really contribute to the European Union?

...research in UK universities). ONS data does not separately identify direct flows from the EU to the UK private sector. Data from the European Commission (EC) does account for some credits to the private sector. Let’s now take a look at how it calculates the UK’s contribution using its own figures. Using the latest available figures published by the EC, a wider...
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Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Research), https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/empire-marketing-board-1926-33-britains-failed-attempt-soft-trade-policy. Drawing on their ‘Britain’s Empire Marketing Board and the failure of soft trade, 1926-1933’, in European Review of Economic History, 25, pp. 780-805 Horton, Melanie. Empire Marketing Board Posters (Manchester: Scala, 2010). A small booklet that...
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Strategies to reduce the prison population
Society, Politics & Law

Strategies to reduce the prison population

...research has shown, residential therapeutic communities work in addressing substance misuse and one of the key goals should be promoting such treatment. In addition, the vast majority of women prisoners have been sentenced for petty and non-violent offences and could be released through probation, home monitoring or amnesties. Judges could also pilot the introduction of...
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Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...research was about the nitty-gritty of the books’ design: is there a difference between personalised books that use a child’s name versus those that use their photo? Does it matter whether the child makes their own book or if it is produced by their parent or by an unknown publisher? We know that the reading medium influences learning, so is there a difference between...
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From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...research. But again I thought: ‘No, these people are not here for the sake of this project that I want to do.’ Then I thought about how I could make this – and then I looked at my daughter and I thought it’s my own child, completely connected and there was nothing more connected to me than my own child to talk about this whole experience. And I thought, maybe I...
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